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The first name 
Lima

Lima is a first name for girls.

Lima – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Lima has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Lima. That means that a girl named Lima is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Lima

Lima has 4 letters 
and begins with an L

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.

With four letters, the name Lima is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.

Other names with 
L, i, m and a

If you take all the letters in the name Lima – L, i, m and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Liam or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lima

If your name is Lima and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Lima

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lima, you can simply say:

Lion

Igloo

Mouse

Apple

This is how the name Lima is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Lima in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Lima

Lima

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Lima

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Lima is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
I
M
A

Have you ever waved the name Lima

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

L
I
M
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lima sounds like this: